Double Feature

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan sends James T. Kirk into his ultimate mission as Starfleet commander: How does one face death? Nearing retirement, grounded Admiral Kirk jumps at the chance to get back out into space and observe the new batch running the Enterprise. But when long-exiled uber-mensch Khan threatens his crew (and the known galaxy) with an experimental terraforming apparatus called the Genesis Device, Kirk takes the captain’s chair one more time to stop the vengeful Khan and save the Federation. This may be the Enterprise’s most hard-fought battle yet, and it will cost them dearly. A sequel to the original series episode “Space Seed,” Khan features the terrifyingly theatrical Ricardo Montalban reprising his unforgettable role and embodying Kirk’s greatest foe, and perhaps too, his greatest fear. Try not to yell.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

While the Enterprise crew comes under Federation tribunal for their actions in The Search for Spock, an enormous deep space probe arrives to threaten Earth with catastrophic climate change, and Kirk and co. are the only ones who can save the day in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. They have to take a time warp back to the 20th century and bring back extinct humpback whales (in whose language the probe communicates). Their greatest challenge might not be the mission but navigating 1986 San Francisco with its’ paper money, punk scene, and Cold War atavism. A breezier, more irreverent Star Trek film, it combines urgent environmental commentary with self-aware humor (“nuclear wessels”) to spin an Enterprise adventure unlike any other.